Three years later, Herbert died - from a brain tumor - and was buried at Arlington. Herbert arranged for his ashes to be inurned there, with the crew from RaphaelвЂ™s in attendance. Stanley was an Army veteran, had served in World War II, was eligible to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. TamaraвЂ™s husband did a little investigating. Stanley made his request - вЂњspread my ashesвЂќ - and it wasnвЂ™t long after he made his request that he died. Tamara hadnвЂ™t owned RaphaelвЂ™s for long when Mr. Your customers become sort of family, too. Really, she says, you spend more time with your co-workers than with your family. вЂњWe are locked here for 10 hours every day. вЂњI need to know their skills with people, with the employees,вЂќ she says. A voice rises above the snip of scissors and the blare of hair dryers: An announcer is saying, вЂњYou can see him dragging bodies behind a truck in Syria.

ThatвЂ™s what the barbers - Ebrahim and Sonny (Iran), Jalal (Iraq), Anna (Vietnam), Tamara (Georgia) - speak to one another. вЂњThere are five languages spoken here,вЂќ Tamara says before reeling them off: Farsi, Arabic, Georgian, Russian, Vietnamese. Tamara needs two more barbers to fill all seven chairs. A sign in the window announces that RaphaelвЂ™s is hiring. RaphaelвЂ™s has weathered the neighborhoodвЂ™s ups and downs. The shop is in the Metropolitan Building in downtown Silver Spring. In Georgia, Tamara was a registered nurse, but to be certified in the United States would have taken six years. She had immigrated from Tbilisi, Georgia, after falling in love with a retired American judge named Herbert Mutter, who was in the former Soviet Union teaching law and economics. They were first-generation immigrants who saw in the manly world of straight razors and Barbicide disinfectant a dependable way to earn a living. Those were the days when Italian and Greek men cut hair at RaphaelвЂ™s. The flag from the funeral of Stanley Howard, a long-time Raphael's customer and Army veteran who died in 1995, sits on a shelf in the shop.

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